Why would you move to South?

[vickster]

Pretty accurate assessment wrt the start of career, and mid career but I know no one who has moved South (London/Surrey etc) to retire

My parents did after full retirement, from Oxfordshire, having moved there from London about 17 years previously. They wanted to be closer to us and also to amenities, they were 30 miles from a hospital and five from a shop!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I get a nose bleed anytime I go norf of the river.

Are you that unpopular?

 

[ianrauk]

Are you that unpopular?

Yeah, I keep telling smelly, whinging norverners to shut up moaning or go back to the norvern wastelands.

 

[Slick]

Yeah, I keep telling smelly, whinging norverners to shut up moaning or go back to the norvern wastelands.

Not wonder you keep getting your nose burst.

 

[ianrauk]

Not wonder you keep getting your nose burst.

@Marmion beat you to that one, not so Slick

 

[Slick]

Two Jocks are better than one.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

You must really miss the skating on frozen rivers since moving south.

I shall be moving in a northwards direction again fairly soon, at least during the week, and then back to border patrol duties at the weekend

 

[Hill Wimp]

South isn't just London.

Living on the South Coast I live closer to Calaid than I do to my office in London.
It really depends what you want in your life outside work.

 

[beanzontoast]

East Midlander like the OP - though in my case I've lived here my entire 60 years.

I've been down south only on holidays and school trips, one of which involved staying in London for a week. Have to say I was very glad to get back home at the end of the week. I can't put my finger on what I didn't like about London. In many ways it was an exciting place and obviously the choice of a whole lot of people. It just didn't suit me. It was more that I missed the quiet and the familiar, less bustling environment up here. I realised even then that I was never going to want to live anywhere else. And so it has turned out.

I remember being somewhat jealous at the time of a schoolfriend in my class - a lad with an incredible affinity for farming and countryside life in general - who got himself excused from going on the trip via a letter from his father saying he didn't want to. At the time, I rather wished my own father had written a similar letter for myself!

 

[vickster]

South isn't just London.

Living on the South Coast I live closer to Calaid than I do to my office in London.
It really depends what you want in your life outside work.

I wouldn't want to commute daily from the Kent coast to Leatherhead /Epsom every day though!

It was bad enough commuting from from Sutton to Epsom (4 miles) every day for 12 years!

 

[Racing roadkill]

[QUOTE 4698616, member: 259"]With all the will in the world, It would be pretty hard to find any plus points about Oadby.[/QUOTE]
True dat.

 

[ColinJ]

I've just moved west. Moving south is so last century.......moving west is the hip thing to do.

Not if you live in Penzance or Aberystwyth!

 

[midliferider]

Not if you live in Penzance or Aberystwyth!

I have lived in Aberystwyth. It is a beautiful place in summer. The only problem is that it takes ages to get anywhere.

 

[fossyant]

My sister spends a couple of days a week in London. It's all on expenses but like many jobs they are do-able from anywhere. She and her hubby don't have kids though, so I can't see a job like that working if you have a family.

In a previous job I had to drive to South Wales on a regular basis, with young kids - I even had to do S. Wales and back in a day with 8 hours work down near Cardiff. My wife went nuts... 16 plus hour day with hard driving through the middle of Wales - at least the driving kept you awake, not like on a Motorway.

Personally, I like living next to the Peaks and a stones throw from North Wales.

 

[vickster]

I have lived in Aberystwyth. It is a beautiful place in summer. The only problem is that it takes ages to get anywhere.

Bit like Surrey then